The Thālner copper plates, which consist of three inscribed copper plates with a ring, were acquired from a resident of Thālner by a blacksmith from Dhule. The plates date to the third year of Hariṣeṇa’s reign and are the only known official charter of the king, who was the last ruler of the Vatsagulma branch of the Vākāṭakas. The plates record the donation of two villages and some land to a group of Brāhmaṇas who were students of Sāmaveda.
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| Inscription ID | IN00193 |
| Title | Thalner Charter of Harisena |
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| Parent Object | OB00180 |
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| Author | Dániel Balogh |
| Print edition recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Edition improved by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for | Own research. |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Hariṣeṇa |
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| Topic | donation of two villages and some land to a group of Brāhmaṇas who were students of Sāmaveda |
| Date: | |
| Min | 463 |
| Max | 483 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 3 varṣā pakṣa 4, day 12 (era: regnal, Hariṣeṇa II). Basis of dating: approximate reign of Hariṣeṇa. Mirashi (1982: 80) believes this may be the latest known season date from south India. |
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| Letter size | |
| Description | southern class; instead of box-heads the characters have rounded knobs which are scooped out hollow |
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| Height | |
| Description | 27 lines in total, with 7 lines on most pages but 6 on 2 verso. Campus size and character size are not reported and cannot be estimated since the rubbings do not seem to cover the entire surface of the plates. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First edited by D. R. Bhat in the (Marathi?) journal Saṃśodhaka (vol. 47 no. 1-2, 1980), published by the Rājavāḍe Saṃśodhana Maṇḍal. Re-edited by Mirashi in Saṃśodhana Muktāvalī (Pt. 10, 1981, pp. 44-57; this is probably a publication of the Vidarbha Samshodhan Mandal) and in Mirashi 1982: 78-87. Edition (Mirashi 1982: 78-87 revised according to Shastri 1984) reprinted in Shrimali 1987: 82-83. Discussed in Shastri 1984, Shastri 1987: 65-68 and Shastri 1997: 111-113. |
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